Or, welcome to my low-maintenance heck.

Yeah, I was wondering why Ye Olde Blackberry was being so quiet over here. Guess that's one way to make your average afternoon meeting that much more productive:

NEW YORK (AP) -- An outage has disconnected BlackBerry smart phones across North America. AT&T Inc. says the disruption Monday is affecting all wireless carriers. AT&T first learned about the problem at about 3:30 p.m. EST.

There's no word on the cause or when the problem might be fixed.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion did not immediately return a phone call.